groyster1
2358 posts
Aug 31, 2013
11:52 AM
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I just got a metronome from ebay that came all the way from china......adjusting the tempo was not hard to figure but what about the bells.......why are they there?0,2,3,4 or 6 is the setting
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timeistight
1339 posts
Aug 31, 2013
2:37 PM
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Probably downbeat. Setting looks like
0: no downbeat
2: 2/4
3: 3/4
4: 4/4
6: 6/8
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STME58
535 posts
Aug 31, 2013
5:10 PM
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What? No 5/4 or 7/8 settings!
Actually those bells can come in handy when trying to read a difficult piece. You metronome wont help in this regard on Dave Brubeck's "Take 5" or Mars from Holst's "The Planets"
Is your metronome electrnic of mechanical. I remember as a kid, playing with a mechanical metronome that had a bell like that on it. A little hammer would pull back and strike the bell at the appropriate time. I still love mechanisms like that.
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groyster1
2362 posts
Sep 01, 2013
6:32 AM
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metronome is mechanical windup with a pendulum...I just watch the pendulum to keep time
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